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by randmeerkat 607 days ago
> If you have a 25 m^2 cross section in the direction of the explosion, at that distance you have a roughly 1 in 246 billion chance of any given bit of debris hitting you.

Source?

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  $ units
  You have: 25m2 / 2tau(700km)^2
  You want: /billion
    * 0.0040600751
    / 246.30086